Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer Glyn Jones was born at 16 Clare Street, Merthyr Tydfil, on 28 February 1905, the younger son of William Henry Jones (1873-1957), clerical worker at the GPO, and his wife Margaret (née Williams, 1897-1966), teacher. An elder brother, David Tydfilyn (1901-1968) became an H.M.I. A paternal grandfather David William Jones (1832-1900) had been a Welsh-language poet, known by his bardic name, Llwch
JONES, MOSES OWEN (1842 - 1908), schoolmaster, musician, and eisteddfodwr successful several times in national and other eisteddfodau. His best known treatise, probably, is that which won for him the prize at the London national eisteddfod of 1887 and was published (under the editorship of David Emlyn Evans) in 1890 as Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig; Jones had written a biographical and critical history of Welsh musicians for an eisteddfod held at Aberdare in 1885 (NLW MSS
JONES, OWEN (1833 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters . She died in January 1909. Though he became moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association (1887) and of the General Assembly (1894), he was primarily a writer and a bibliophile. His early knowledge of Llidiardau led him to collaborate with Robert Thomas (1796 - 1866) in a biography of David Rowland (1795 - 1861), published in 1863; later (1869), he published a book on Robert Thomas himself. His
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher Born 2 November 1867 in 110, Clarendon St., Paddington, fourth of the six sons of David Jones, stonemason, and his wife Eliza (née Griffiths), both of Barmouth, Meironnydd. His mother died in 1882 (his father in 1890) and Owen and his only sister Nellie (Margaret Ellen) made their home with a cousin and her husband, Alderman John Evans, 11 Brogyntyn, Barmouth, where Welsh was the language of the
JONES, OWEN THOMAS (1878 - 1967), Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge Born 16 April 1878, at Plasnewydd Farm, Beulah, Cardiganshire, near Newcastle Emlyn, the only son of David Jones and Margaret Thomas. He attended the British School in Tre-wen near Newcastle Emlyn and later entered Pencader grammar school. Up to this time O.T. Jones spoke Welsh only, and throughout his life continued to speak and write in Welsh with the greatest fluency. Already at his grammar
JONES, (WILLIAM JOHN) PARRY (1891 - 1963), singer Born 14 February 1891 in Blaina, Monmouthshire, son of John Rees Jones, butcher, and Mary Jones (née Parry) his wife. At 11 years of age he won a scholarship to Abertillery county school, but he left after 18 months owing to the family's financial circumstances, and went to work in the colliery. After studying in evening classes and being appointed librarian at the Miners' Institute there, he
JONES, PETER (Pedr Fardd; 1775 - 1845), poet and hymnist entitled ' Manteision ac Anfanteision Ystad Priodas.' He was a contributor to periodicals such as Seren Gomer and Goleuad Gwynedd. He died at Liverpool, 26 January 1845, and was buried in the churchyard of S. Paul's there; David James (1803 - 1871) officiated at the funeral. In J. H. Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool, i, 119-24, there are fuller details of Peter Jones's somewhat troubled career at
JONES, REES (Amnon; 1797 - 1844), farmer and poet Born at Talgarreg, 8 October 1797, the elder brother of John Jones (1802 - 1863). He lost his father when he was 12 years of age. He had been to David Davis of Castellhywel's school and could read Latin, but, owing to his family's straitened circumstances, was withdrawn from school and spent the remainder of his life farming. As a young man he married Mary, daughter of the Nantyrymenyn family
JONES, REES CRIBIN (1841 - 1927), Unitarian minister and teacher Born at Talgarreg Mill, Cardiganshire, 9 September 1841, one of four children. David Jones, his father, was from Rhandir, Talgarreg, and his mother was from Caer-foel, Ystrad. At one time a shepherd, he was educated at Dewi Hefin's school, Cribyn, John Davies's school at the Three Horse Shoes, Cribyn, Pont-siân school (1860-63), and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1863-67). He conducted
JONES, REES JENKIN (1835 - 1924), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, historian, and hymn-writer
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer (1911-1957) and settled in the area. It was there at Tan-yr-eglwys, the family farm in the south of the county, that Dic Jones was brought up. He had an elder brother, David Goronwy (1932-2002) and later three girls arrived to complete the family, Rhiannon Maud Sanders (1935-), Margaret Elizabeth Daniel (1941-) and Eleanor Mary Isaac Jones (1942-). Dic received his formal education at Blaen-porth
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus to Bellarmine, occupies forty-eight pages in Foley's Records, yield valuable evidence about the course of the struggle, and display his resolute leadership. They also show that the Welsh priests of the Appellant party refused to sign the petition of 1610 to Rome for the appointment of a bishop 'unless they are promised an archbishop to succeed St. David.' In 1609 Jones had completed and sent to

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